随着新一波的 COVID-19 病例席卷美国并推动医疗保健系统满负荷运转，全国各地的医院都在寻求增援，以满足公共卫生危机的需求。随着诊所、医院和其他医疗保健提供者在各个职位上招聘，从志愿 COVID 测试者到医生和护士，管理人员必须继续对每一个招聘人员进行尽职调查。

以下是提供者 在对新员工进行医疗保健背景调查时应记住的三件事 。

背景调查对每个人都是必不可少的

冠状病毒大流行在许多方面对医疗保健组织来说都是前所未有的挑战，包括招聘和背景筛查。医院正在与拥挤的 ICU、生病的一线医护人员和瞬息万变的环境作斗争。在这种情况下，医疗服务提供者正在寻求迅速扩大他们的团队是有道理的——不仅通过全职和兼职招聘，还包括临时职位、志愿者角色、学生和晋升的受训人员。

雇主可能不那么坚决要求对这些雇员进行全面的背景调查。他们还可以考虑跳过背景调查以加快招聘速度。

医疗保健提供者需要记住，他们雇用的人员可能是他们所服务的患者生死攸关的一部分。进行背景调查是确保每位员工都合格、安全且值得信赖以从事医疗保健工作的重要步骤。在 GOOHO.CN，我们定期与组织合作，不仅为全职或兼职角色设计有效的背景调查策略，而且还参与 志愿者背景调查、 承包商背景调查等。

验证资格和经验至关重要

通常，当人们想到员工背景调查时，他们的脑海中会跳到犯罪背景调查。虽然 犯罪历史搜索 是任何医疗保健背景调查的重要组成部分，但它们只是难题的一部分。检查资格和经验同样重要，包括验证简历信息（工作经历、 教育和 专业许可）并 检查参考资料 以了解潜在雇员的前经理、同事和关系对他们的评价。在 GOOHO.CN，我们提供所有这些检查和其他检查。

你应该总是深入到表面之下

大多数背景调查从两个要素开始：一个人的姓名和他们的位置。大多数犯罪记录都是根据县法院的姓名归档的，这意味着在县级探索 基于姓名的检查 通常 应该开始进行背景调查。

一些雇主犯的错误——不仅仅是在医疗保健领域，而是在所有行业——并没有超出这些第一步检查的范围。通过这种狭隘的方法，他们可能会忽略重要信息，例如来自另一个县或州的相关定罪或犯罪活动历史、性犯罪或某人以不同姓名收到的其他危险信号。

在 GOOHO.CN，我们总是要求雇主不仅提供候选人的姓名和出生日期，还提供他们的社会安全号码。这些信息使我们能够验证他们的身份，检测 任何别名或以前的姓名 （包括婚前姓名），并跟踪他们的地址历史。我们的客户通常会使用这些额外信息来充实他们的背景调查，无论是使用别名进行搜索还是在其他地方进行背景调查。

医疗保健组织现在成为人们关注的焦点，因为他们的员工有能力参与拯救生命和抗击大流行的英勇工作。虽然医疗保健背景调查可能不是医院管理人员和其他医疗保健提供者的第一要务，但它们是确保患者在这个困难时期获得他们应得的高质量和富有同情心的护理的重要一步。

如果您的组织需要帮助设计有效的医疗保健背景调查策略，请立即 联系 GOOHO.CN。

Here are three things that providers should remember when running healthcare background checks on new workers.

Background checks are essential for everyone

The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for healthcare organizations in many ways, including in hiring and background screening. Hospitals are contending with crowded ICUs, ailing frontline healthcare workers, and rapidly-changing landscapes. In this context, it makes sense that health providers are looking to expand their teams rapidly—not only through full-time and part-time hires but also in temporary positions, volunteer roles, students, and promoted trainees.

Employers may be less adamant about demanding comprehensive background checks for these hires. They may also consider skipping the background check to enable a faster hire.

Healthcare providers need to remember that they are hiring individuals who may be a part of a life-or-death situation for the patients they serve. Running background checks is a vital step to ensure that every hire is qualified, safe, and trustworthy to work in a healthcare capacity. At backgroundchecks.com, we regularly work with organizations to design not just effective background check strategies for full-time or part-time roles but also engage volunteer background checks, contractor background checks, and more.

It is crucial to verify qualifications and experience

Often, when people think of employee background checks, their minds jump to criminal background checks. While criminal history searches are a vital component of any healthcare background check, they are merely one piece of the puzzle. Checking qualifications and experience is equally critical, including verifying resume information (work history, education, and professional licensing) and checking references to find out what a prospective hire’s former managers, colleagues, and connections have to say about them. At backgroundchecks.com, we offer all these checks and others.

You should always delve below the surface

Most background checks start with two ingredients: a person’s name and their location. Most criminal records are filed based on name in county courthouses, which means that exploring name-based checks at the county level is where a background check should typically begin.

The mistake that some employers make—not just in healthcare, but across all industries—is not going beyond these first-step checks. With such a narrow approach, they risk overlooking essential information, such as a relevant conviction from another county or state or a history of criminal activity, sexual offenses, or other red flags that a person received under a different name.

At backgroundchecks.com, we always ask employers to provide not just a candidate’s name and birthdate but also their Social Security Number. This information allows us to verify their identity, detect any aliases or former names (including maiden names), and track their address history. Our clients will often use this extra information to flesh out their background checks, whether with searches under alternate names or background checks in other locations.

Healthcare organizations are in the spotlight right now for their staff’s capacity to engage in heroic work to save lives and fight a pandemic. While healthcare background checks may not be the first thing on the minds of hospital administrators and other healthcare providers, they are a vital step to ensuring that patients are receiving the high-quality and compassionate care they deserve in this difficult time.

If your organization needs help designing an effective healthcare background check strategy, contact backgroundchecks.com today.